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100 comments. We did it again.

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ok so back in the eighties they made this other game
it was supposed to teach kids about history and geography and probably i wouldnt know a quarter as much as i do about my own fucking planet without it
(my bro liked retro shit like that and that was one of the ones he actually let me play)
(i mean probably i had to duel him for it but you know how it is)
anyway that game launched a franchise that included other games about like math and then there were cartoons and shit
anyway
they were called

where in the world is carmen sandiego

the 100th comment is explaining who carmen sandiego is. god bless us.

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oh
oh my god???
are you telling me she's
a fictional character?????

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i hesitate to use that terminology because of complex reasons leading us both straight down the road to massive existential crises
but from my perspective
yes
thats what im telling you

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well holy crap Dave

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whats fiction anyway
just because a world only exists on the printed page or as a stupidly complex system of ones and zeros for US doesnt mean the world isnt "real" for the people in it
i think given the proven existence of multiple worlds
and the real possibility of INFINITE worlds if you subscribe to the idea that any Choice splits a timeline into this and that
were almost obligated to believe that within the unimaginable multitude of worlds that exist are worlds that we find completely imaginable
ie the ones we make up in books and movies
ergo fictional worlds are real worlds just in parallel dimensions and maybe if you wait here long enough one day youll get to shake harry potters hand

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I'm less about multi-world theory than a friend of mine
but if this means at some point I could actually meet Legalos I say hooray

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orlando bloom
really?

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or Aragorn! or Gimli
or any of the Fellowship + incorporated really
I don't JUST like Legalos because he has a nice face

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ok well you do you and all
but id wanna hang out with eowyn

i mean
(shit whats her actresses name)
(how do i pretend i didnt know she wasnt in the fellowship)
shes hot
(nailed it)

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well OF COURSE I'd want to hang with Eowyn!
and Arwen. :)
that's what I meant by incorporated because there's no way I would pass up the chance to talk with some of my favorite ladies
(don't worry I'm not one of those JUDGMENTAL fans :p)

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haha ok ok i get you
kinda sucks arwen didnt get to do much of anything in the books though
she kicked ASS in the movies

1/2

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omg I know right?? that's what I hated the most! she's such a cool character but she doesn't get to BE the badass she was always born to be!
but the movies gave her the opportunity to kick ass and take names!!
Peter Jackson, the Savior

2/2

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pretty cool that you've actually read the books
most people our age have only seen the movies

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oh
i

[Shit, he gave that one away, didn't he.]

i had a lot of free time at one point in my life

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nothing wrong with that
I mean
there was a period of my life when I kind of didn't have a lot of friends so
free time's something I understand

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[Hahaha. A period where she didn't have a lot of friends. Yup.]

mostly i watched movies
or made music and stuff
but with the lotr trilogy in particular i was like ok im clearly missing a lot of material here and also im not actually even getting everyones names?
so i obtained myself the dead tree format and somehow got through

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wow you should see my face
just the thought of that's making me smile
no one even forced you!
I had to bother and pester my best friend to read them and even then he kind of slogged his way through
I mean he did watch the extended editions with me which is tbf the ONLY way to get the full experience
but choosing to read the books on your own
did you end up reading The Hobbit too? or watching those movies? the changes they made to that one were extreme but I really liked them
especially since it added a romance subplot AND another badass lady elf

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theres more movies??
i mean i assume youre not talking about the weird anime cartoon version from 1977

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of course not that thing's blasphemous
I'm talking about the second trilogy!! it was just one book but they stretched it out to make three movies which was a weird idea but it gave me more middle earth so I'm not REALLY complaining
An Unexpected Journey
The Desolation of Smaug
The Battle of the Five Armies

Following Bilbo Baggins' adventure with the dwarves :)

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when did those come out

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one every december starting in 2012?
the last one came out last year
last year for me at least since apparently it's 2016 here instead of 2015...

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oh ok that explains it
damn
were they any good
id look for them here but theyd be the pokemon versions and im not sure im ready for that to be my first exposure to a movie

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oh I thought since you mentioned how old you are that you would have been around for at least a few of them
they were good either way
at least I think so
kind of milking the franchise? but like I said I got more middle earth so I'm satisfied

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um yeah i havent uh
generally seen or read anything thats come out recently
im good up through the first decade of the millennium but from 2010 on im playing catch up

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you weren't able to for the last few years?
THAT sounds horrible
and like a story
but I don't want to ask if it'd make you uncomfortable
(since you've been distracting me from a lot of unpleasant things and all that)